How I Got My Body: 8 Superhumans Reveal Their Secrets

Back in February, GQ’s Body Issue celebrated—you guessed it—the human body. As part of that celebration we went out and found eight dudes with eight very different bodies. Some eat for a living; some fight for a living; some party for a living—but they’ve all got a body (just like you!) and here, they tell you how they got it.

Nothing keeps you in top physical condition quite like hand-to-hand combat. So how does McGregor maintain his edge in the octagon? "I want to instill panic,” he says. “Panic will make you overthrow. I set traps off [opponents’] panic. That’s what I’m trying to do. Make them panic. Trap them. Kill them."

Both Terry Crews, 47, and Isaiah Mustafa, 42, played professional football. Now, they look and smell good, professionally. And both say they’re in the best shape of their lives.

Johnny Rotten’s body management plan is a little more lax: “If I can’t enjoy being alive, then I don’t want to be alive. And drinking and cigarettes and having fun and staying up for endless days—these are all great attractions to me.”

"People think I've got this superhuman metabolism and I eat, like, 8,000 calories every day. It's not like that. I'm just like everybody else. I work hard to keep in shape. I run. I lift weights. My body has just adapted over the years.”